Method of making garment stays



. 1,571,962 C. C. sELEY METHOD or' MAKING GARMENT sTAYs Feb. 2 1926.

. Original Filed July 27. 1923 I @ZMK v Patented Feb. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT orifice.

CHARLES C. SELEY, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE H. .'BARLOWAND JOSEPH J. lDESMONID, OF CORRY, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MAKING GARMENT STAYS.

Application filed July 27, 1923, Serial No. 654,130. Renewed December 7,1925.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. SELEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Method of MakingGarment Stays and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and

exact description of the invention, such as rwill enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, 'forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to method of manufacturing garment stays composedof a single wire having edge forming loops along each edge of the stay.

The features of this invention are hereinafter described and pointed outand are illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a plan viewof a fragment of a garment stay made inaccordance with this invention;

F ig. 2 illustrates one of the operations in this invention;

Fig. 3 is an edgewise view of Fig. 2;

Fig. l is an end view of the wire braid before it has been operated uponby the operation shown in Figs. 2 and 3;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the wire braid shown in Fig. 2, somewhatelongated; and

Fig. 6 is an illustrative view of the operation shown in Fig. 2.

ln practicing this invention the wire is first put through a wirebending machine of the type shown and described in U. S. Patent No.1,257,748, issued on my application February 28, 1918, which forms itinto a ribbon as shown at A in Fig. 2, an end view (see Fig. l) showingthe wire in iigure 8 form, the edge loops shingled over each other, thusplacing in the wire, composing the loops, an initial torsional twist. l'then insert vthe final end of the ribbon or braid 'between press-rollsB and B and pass it which extend from the loops c at one edge,

to the loops a at the other edge of the stay. In Fig. (i, l haveillustrated, by means of axial lines C, the movement of the loops fromthe position thereof, as formed by the wire bending machine, abovereferred to, to the position thereof, indicated by broken lines, afterthey have been bent backwardly. This backward bending or twisting of theloops a changes them from long pear-shaped loops, as shown at A in Fig.2, to substantially circular eyes, thus increasing the initial torsionaltwist therein, and at the saine time places a torsional twist in thediagonal wire between the loops or eyes a, as indicated by small arrowsin Fig. 5, because, in the twisting backwardly of the loops at oppositeedges of the stay strip, the wire is twisted substantially a halfrotation The result of these Operations is the increasing of theelasticity of the wire, thus rendering the iinished stay, shown in Fig.1, very elastic in all directions, and not susceptible of becoming setwhen bent.

Having thus fully described my improved method of manufacturing garmentstays, and illustrated a suitable means for practicing the same, whatclaim as new, and dcsire to secure by Letters Batent is:

1. IThe method of forming a garment stay from a wire, consisting inbending the wire into a series of sinuous oppositely disposed helicalloops, and then ypassing' said bent wire between press rolls in adirection opposite to that in which the succession of loops were `formedwhereby said loops :no turned over backwards.

The .method of forlning u garment slay :lronl :l Wiro, Consisting' inbending tho Wiro into u serieg olf sinnons oppositoly disposed helicalloops whereby :1n initial torlionnl srnin placed in Suid Wire, and thenpussing said bent wire betnoon press rolls in L direction opposite tothai' in which the snccession olE loops wore Yformed whereby said l0loops nro turned over backwards thereby inarousing* the initialtorlionzll Strain.

ln testimony whorool l nllx my Signaturen CHARLES C. SELICY.

